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Hmmm. It's a football GAME. Today, the better team, the team that played better, won. The bad O-line recruits? I believe Danno sent three O-line guys to the NFL last season. All five of the O-line guys who started today have a legit shot at the NFL. As does the starting TE who could be a 1st round pick. The QB who couldn't spot wide-open receivers? I saw one guy wide, wide open, and Dante hit him for a TD. How many other guys were wide open when Dante had the time to throw the ball and were missed? Today's game was a referendum on this game. The first loss to a B1G opponent that happened to be a top-10-ranked team, not UCLA and not Northwestern. Please, OBD fans, do not turn into TOSU fans. The worst coach in the history of the game last November happened to be some guy named Day, right? The coach Dan lost to today has far more wins as a head coach than Dan. This was game SIX in what could be a 16 or 17-game season. Perhaps this season's champ will go unblemished this season, but I very much doubt it. Iniana won this game far more than OBD lost this game. Next case. BEAT RUTGERS!

What did i learn from this? Oregon will lose at least 2 more games. Way too much hype. Time to stop playing way weaker opponents at the beginning of the season.

I recommend that you start drinking heavily!😁

Well in fairness, everyone said the same thing about Franklin and Penn State and that turned out okay. Cig is not Franklin though, as is now blatantly obvious.

The QB. Too much love for Ws. Too much bame for Ls. The young man was under siege.

Miami's OL is littered with OL recruited we "missed out on". Still, our portal O-Line is good enough for us to win a national championship.

Please, pass the sauerkraut and strudel.😁You said 'So Long' to Prubila? Not a good move, ah? That's Clemson and PSU PO over and out. Texas, still OK.

I just finished watching the game. Our defense was nails. Offense scored 13 points! I think IOWA scored more. I see a lot of complaints about the O Line. It's not on them. They weren't losing their 1 on 1s enough to be the problem. The problem is 90% Dante Moore, 10% not adjusting the blocking scheme with an extra blocker to pick up the pressure. It's hard to say that a loss falls on one person but this was really bad. If Dante Moore can't figure out how to pick apart a zone defense he will never be great and we will not win a natty with him, maybe not even a playoff game. He has worked so hard since leaving UCLA to be the guy that doesn't take chances and takes what the defense gives him, but this was extreme. If the defenses is giving you a sack throw it away instead of going into the fetal position. 24 seconds left in the game down by two and he checked it down 4 straight times. How could IU be rushing so many players, be consistently using 3 LINBACKERS, and we've got everyone out running routes, and nobody is open? People were open, Dante Moore was too scared to throw it to them, or more specifically he wasn't capable of reading the defense well enough to know people were truly open. Maybe if he was a gunslinger he would have thrown 3 more picks, but he has to learn how to handle zone coverage with confidence. Will Stein is amazing, but he's not a miracle worker, he can't consistently design plays to get players in a space with nobody around for 5 yards. Dante Moore lost Oregon this game.

Mario Cristobal is coaching better right now. I've looked at all their games. He is adjusting, despite having had a physical advantage in every game this year. He kept Florida bottled in a close game till they wore them down. He jumped on FSU early, and coasted properly to the win. We are not as physical as Miami, and at least 4 SEC teams. But we're as good. COACHING is going to be the difference. We haven't learned enough from the Rose Bowl. The Force is strong with us, but are not Jedis yet.

Yeah, the O-line recruiting has been sub-par for several years now, we also have developed the talent we do have, it's hard for lines to come together when you have 3 guys who are completely new to the program. We're just not that good in the trenches, D-line is good but not elite, and the linebackers are again good but not outstanding. A lot of the warning signs were there, even if we do go undefeated I would say we should be left out, we won't have a single good win on the season. Really disappointing to see.

I feel bad for Allar but it might be a blessing in disguise for all parties involved.

For whatever reason, Coach Lanning and staff have not recruited well on the offensive line and have had to rely on transfers to plug holes in the roster. I’d like to hear from those in the know what has happened. Are they evaluation misses, injuries, lack of development or something else? Mario was a mediocre head coach but at least he recruited and developed elite offensive lines, and he is doing the same at Miami.

Wow... Next man up is Grunkmeyer?

I am taking comfort in our Oregon State win.

I just found out that Allar is done for the year. He took a lot of abuse from his own fan base. Now they get to see what life is like without him.

We can gripe about this and that for the rest of the evening, but the simple fact is that Indiana was the better football team today. Just like we were the better football team 365 days (give or take a few hours) ago against Ohio State.

You know, there a ton of fans out there where I would enjoy what is happening to Penn State. (Like Buckeye fans?) 'Lion fans I do not wish this upon. PSU fans don't deserve this, but as William Munny said to Lil-Bill in Unforgiven....

Oh well... at least we're not Penn Srate.

I’m not worried. As crazy as it sounds, I don’t think we’ll turn into Penn State. The reason? Dan Lanning. Will he take OBD to the playoffs this season? I don’t know, but he won’t allow us to suck.

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You cannot win a game when you lose both LOS. The Indiana pass rush and an undersized CB named Ponds showed up. Matayo et al? How was Cignetti in the CFB coaching weeds before he was in his 60s? His turnaround of the losingest team in CFB history puts Bill Snyder on the bench. Indy is now 1-46 on the road vs. top 5 teams. 2-74 all time. Last season's champ lost two regular-season games, and a Natty is still in sight. But, as the Good Doctor notes above, don't lose twice, don't screw up at Rutgers. How badly does Penn State SUCK? How can a team with that talent keep on choking? Jim Knowles? $3M a year? One B1G coach has hiring DCs down Pat(ricia.) And it's not Jimmy Franklin. It's the guy TOSU fans wanted to run out of Columbus last November. OBD's FG kicker missed what could have been a momentum-shifter FG at Penn State, and his chip shot miss today led to a 6-point end of the first half swing. In physical, smashmouth ball games, you can't miss these pressure kicks. As for the dings at Dante above. It's hard to complete passes when folks, smaller than your O-line guys, but quicker, are in your face. When your 'better athletes' cannot separate from lesser athletes downfield, including a 5'9" CB who left no Ponds for Ducks to land in. When the play calling is timid all day, along with puzzling player personnel decisions, well? But returning to sentence one above, you lose the LOS, you lose. OBD was outcoached. Lesser athletes won the day. Don't turn today into bad Knights.

Excuse this post.

A disappointing loss to say the least, but now the team (and the fans) know where we stand. It's a young team, and regardless of how much Dan Lanning will say that it starts with him, the coaches, and the "poor" game planning, the reality is, we just got out worked. I think in hindsight, the signs were there during the Northwestern and PSU games, but it's easy to overlook them when we win. This team is very, very young, and in the era of NIL and Covid-carryover years, team age, maturity, and experience seems to matter quite a lot more than the number of stars next to the players' names.

BIG SHOUT-OUT TO NJDUCK FOR FILLING THIS THREAD. Oregon Duck fans react to loss to Indiana Hoosiers at home

Great #@$#@& pick 😡 Just kidding. 😁 Good on you, brother.